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An attempt to communicate through prose what cannot be conveyed in mere description.
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Sci-fi conceits, assumptions, and concepts underpinning the universe of the Novarion Sector.
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The major planets of the Novarion Sector.
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History has a gravity all of its own.
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An overview of my sci-fi campaign setting, the Novarion Sector.
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The dream is dead, the Dream lives on. Well, a week into Over/Under I was whacked off for girlbossing too close to the sun. I played Jenny Calabrese, the VP of Operations of...
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This is a little minigame I've created for Over/Under, a Cataphracts-like wargame for Mothership Month. I play Jenny Calabrese, the VP of Business for the Stratemeyer Syndicate...Linked by the ring
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This is my rules lite dungeoncrawling hack. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Everyone is entitled to reinvent the wheel at least once. Sure, I could have just used...
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I offered to run Sailors of the Starless Sea for some friends. This was a great opportunity to finally put my rules lite dungeoncrawling hack to paper and test it out....
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Trauma is a funny thing. I wasn't a person until a few years ago. Before that, I lived lives that I only half-remember, glimpsed through an underlying cloud of pain and regret....
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In the dawning years of the thirty-second century, in an area of space far, far, far away from Old Earth, there lay five star systems, tied through metadimensional space and...
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The following is spoiler-free for players in Skulls Without Number. Lege deinceps. Vaxanide is a frontier world, but growing at a breakneck pace by Imperial standards. In the...
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Another thundering session of Skulls Without Number! Dramatis Personae Sebastion Echerole: Missionary and healer Gallius Vax: Techpriest of the heretekial persuasion...
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My players completed their sixth session of Skulls Without Number! Dramatis Personae Sebastion Echerole: Missionary, Chief Chirurgeon, and point man with a flamer Gallius Vax:...
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My players completed the fifth session of Skulls Without Number!1 Quite a bit more happened in this session than the last, and I'm continuing to find more things to take away....
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Well, after a little hiatus1 I finally got back to my Skulls Without Number game (see the report from the first and second sessions.) Session 3, unfortunately, will probably...
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Credit: Fantasy Flight Games, Cubicle 7 The very first and second sessions of Skulls Without Number, my Warhammer 40,000 RPG campaign, are complete! While there are a few...
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As mentioned in another post, I recently had two successful sessions of collaborative worldbuilding using (a slightly modified version of) SammyJ's method for collaboratively...
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I recently completed two sessions of (literal) worldbuilding for my upcoming 40k Rogue Trader campaign, Skulls Without Number.1 I've decided to publish the generation system I...
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This is a procedure for generating planetary governments for Stars Without Number and other Traveller-alike games. I like the planet generation procedures in SWN for what they...
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The Novarion Sector plays host to hundreds of cultures, intellectual traditions, and political movements. As the gulfs of space are bridged by starships brimming with foreign...
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Work continues apace on Skulls Without Number, but in the meantime, I wanted to have some fun. Rogue Trader houses are noble houses, and like noble houses, they are not made of...
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Generating an entire setting, RPG or otherwise, out of random tables can lead to incoherence. The mini-essay at the end of the post explains what I mean. I wanted a simple,...Linked by the ring
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A few weeks ago, I saw Hexcrawl25, a challenge to make an entire playable setting and map in one year, by taking it just one six-mile hex at a time. I love this concept, and I...Linked by the ring
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The void: the forbidden frontier. These are the voyages of the Rogue Trader House {name}. Its holy writ: To explore benighted alien worlds; To exploit new life and new...
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I recently played Forbidden Bounty, the intro starter adventure for Fantasy Flight Games’ Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader TTRPG (RT for short). I wanted to evaluate the system...Linked by the ring
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Read the introduction and the “Excellent Reads” in my first post here. Alright, time to start getting controversial. We read a lot of books for the book club, but unfortunately...
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A secret Santa gift for KingDunadd in the Sci-Fi RPG Server. The prompt, originally, was for a “particularly flavourful or interesting grounded/hard sci-fi setting, or...
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Recently, your witch here completed a book club. The other members felt we had read enough, and so we wrapped, put a bow on it, and evolved the club into an artist's social...